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Super Why! is a computer-animated television show from 2007 to 2016 about a kid who lives in Storybrook Village. When he or his friends have an issue, they can jump into storybooks to collect "Super Letters" which they use to solve problems. Super Why! originally started life as Angela Santomero's masters thesis, which is said to predate Blue's Clues, before being developed into a TV show. The show was initially meant to be a stop-motion show, and a pilot was produced to pitch to Nick Jr. The show's pilot was in production by Blue's Clues creator Angela Santomero and Cuppa Coffee Studios in Toronto, Canada between early-mid 1999. The pilot was rejected, but after lots of development hell, the show was released in 2007 on PBS as the CGI show known today. According to the pilot's director, the pilot was greenlit by Nick Jr but later was cancelled in favour of another Nick Jr show "Oswald". The pilot was unreleased, created with a working title, Super Why?. No footage of the pilot has surfaced anywhere, however.
On February 19th, 2021, the unused theme song for the pilot was found by Stephen Laurent and Scramble Fan 2021. However, the audio is higher-pitched, and the beginning and end of the music are cut off, the used theme song was completely different. A high-quality version of the unused theme song can be found on Nick Balaban's website, the composer of the unused theme song. The used theme song was made by artist Daniel Leblanc who uploaded an altered version of the instrumentals to pond5 after realizing the showrunners didn’t care about the pilot anymore.
Footage of the pilot was once available on Cuppa Coffee Animation's old website with 2 clips entitled "Opening Shot" and "Willa blows". Curiously, these clips are from an earlier version of the pilot that uses an altered version of the unused theme song as well as different BGM entirely. Unfortunately, these files were never archived and are likely lost for good.
In May 2021, a listing for the pilot was found at a library by user pdog64. It was only the audio however and on August 2nd, 2021 he uploaded the audio to YouTube.
On January 1st, 2023, a slideshow known as 'Next Generation Kids - PBS Kids' was discovered on SlidePlayer. One of the slides contained a render image for the pilot showing the main character's superhero design and a placeholder image for the series' logo. Interestingly, there was a different version of the image that was placed behind the render image if one tries to edit the slideshow which instead displays "Super Readers to the Rescue", which is believed to be a title once considered for the series around 2006.
On June 12th, 2023, YouTube users The OLD Washington residentand Melody were able to find and release a copy of the full pilot after contacting the Annecy Film Festival, where the pilot won an award.
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